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Agenda 04-23-25 The April 23, 2025, meeting of the Library Board was cancelled due to lack of a quorum Date: April 23, 2025 City of Boynton Beach BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY 100 East Ocean Avenue Boynton Beach, FL 33435 LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD AGENDA Location/Time: City Hall, 100 East Ocean Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL 33435 Commission Chambers at 6:00 p.m. I. Call to Order — Stephanie Colaianni, Chair II. Approval of Minutes — March 2025 (deferred until May meeting) III. Correspondence and Communications IV. Public Audience (Individual Speakers Will Be Limited to 3 Minute Presentations) V. Chair's Report — Board Chair VI. Unfinished Business: Staffing update VII. New Business Proposed Budget Request Summer meetings VIII. Library Director's Report/Statistics IX. March 2025 Monthly Report X. Announcements Next LibraryBoard Meeting — May 28, 2025 NOTICE IF A PERSON DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE BY THE CITY COMMISSION WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER CONSIDERED AT THIS MEETING, HE/SHE WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND, FOR SUCH PURPOSE, HE/SHE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED. (F.S. 286.0105) THE CITY SHALL FURNISH APPROPRIATE AUXILIARY AIDS AND SERVICES WHERE NECESSARY TO AFFORD AN INDIVIDUAL WITH A DISABILITY AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN AND ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF A SERVICE, PROGRAM, OR ACTIVITY CONDUCTED BY THE CITY. PLEASE CONTACT THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE, (561) 742-6060 OR (TTY) 1-800-955-8771, AT LEAST 48 HOURS PRIOR TO THE PROGRAM OR ACTIVITY IN ORDER FOR THE CITY TO REASONABLY ACCOMMODATE YOUR REQUEST. ADDITIONAL AGENDA ITEMS MAY BE ADDED SUBSEQUENT TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE AGENDA ON THE CITY'S WEB SITE. INFORMATION REGARDING ITEMS ADDED TO THE AGENDA AFTER IT IS PUBLISHED ON THE CITY'S WEB SITE CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK. 04/21/25 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY FY 2025 - 2026 BUDGET REQUEST GENERAL LEDGER SUMMARY LIBRARY ACCT# 001-2610-571 ACCOUNT DESCRIPTION AMENDED BUDGET FY 24 / 25 I RECOMMENDED BUDGET FY 25 / 26 DIFF % CHANGE 12-10 REGULAR SALARIESNVAGES 1,688,066 1,783,292 95,226 6% 14-10 OVERTIME 91,425 98,650 7,225 8% 15-12 CELL PHONE ALLOWANCE 5,580 59580 0% 15-20 CAR PHONE ALLOWANCE 10,800 10,800 0% 21-10 EMPLOYER FICA 130,390 137,675 7,285 6% 22-10 GENERAL EMPLOYEES PENSION 263,205 304,736 41,531 160 23-10 LIFE INSURANCE 649 3,437 2,788 430% 23-20 DISABILITY INSURANCE 7,036 8,484 1,448 21% 23-30 HEALTH INSURANCE 222,112 265,286 43,174 19% 23-34 HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNT 16,500 24,000 7,500 45% 23-40 DENTAL INSURANCE 9,306 10,152 846 9% 23-50 VISION INSURANCE 1,220 1,331 111 9% TOTAL PERSONNEL SERVICES 2,446,289 2,653,423 207,134 8.47% 40-10 TRAVEL ALLOWANCE 350 350 0% 40-12 BUSINESS MEETINGS 6,900 7,500 600 9% 41-11 LEASED LINES COALA 7,800 7,800 0% 41-15 CELLULAR PHONE 240 240 = 0% 43-10 ELECTRIC SERVICE 43,000 46,200 3,200 0% 43-20 WATER/SEWER SERVICES 2,500 2,500 0% 44-31 COPY MACHINE RENTAL 6,000 6,000 0% 44-33 BOOK LEASING PROGRAM 19,000 19,000 0% 46-20 EQUIPMENT REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE 41,894 40,248 (1,646) -3.9% 46-22 COMPUTER MAINTENANCE 0% 46-91 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE 69,118 73,575 4,457 6% 47-10 PRINTING AND BINDING 600 600 0% 49-09 TRANSFER TO SELF INS -WK COMP 4,662 5,116 454 10% 49-10 WAREHOUSE SERVICE CHARGE 4,406 5,685 1,279 29% 49-14 CREDIT CARD FEES 480 480 0% 49-17 OTHER CONTRACTUAL SERVICES - LIBRARY 42,600 42,600 0% 49-80 C.O.A.L.A. COMPUTER PROGRAMS 23,334 23,784 450 2% 51-10 OFFICE SUPPLIES 5,500 5,500 0% 52-01 SUPPLIES COMPUTER 13,000 13,000 0% 52-72 LIBRARY SUPPLIES 10,919 12,000 1,081 10% 54-10 PERIODICALS/MAGAZINES/BOOKS/SUBSCIPTIONS 3,532 3,532 0% 54-20 MEMBERSHIPS 1,935 1,935 0% 54-30 TRAINING 2,000 2,000 0% 64-15 COMPUTER MAINTENANCE 00 66-01 BOOKS 71,000 71,000 0% 91-23 TRANSFERS / TRANSFER TO BENEFITS FUND (FINANCE) 41,149 59,214 18,065 44% TOTAL OPERATIONAL EXPENSES 350,919 378,859 27,940 7.96% TOTAL CAPITAL EXPENSES 71,000 j 71,000 - 0% TOTAL PERSONNEL EXPENSES 2,446,2891 2,653,423 1 207,134 8.47% LIBRARY TOTALS 2,868 208 1 3,103,282 1 235,074 8.20% MUSEUM _ FY 2025/2026 BUDGET REQUEST AMENDED RECOMMENDED ACCT# BUDGET BUDGET % 001-2612-571 ACCOUNT DESCRIPTION FY 24 / 25 FY 25 ! 26 DIFF CHANGE 31-91 STAFF SERVICES 164,366 175,000 10,634 6% 41-10 TELEPHONE 500 500 0% 43-10 ELECTRIC SERVICE 32,000 32,000 0% 43-20 WATERISEWER SERVICES 1,000 1,000 0% 43-30 GARBAGE FEES/ ROLL OFFS (NEW) 0 1,000 1,000 49-17 CONTRACTUAL SERVICE 800 800 00 ADT $59mo x 12 = $708 d6o/6 TOTAL: LIBRARY BUDGET $198,666 $210,300 11,634 34-10 JANITORIAL SERVICES 17,500 22,500 5,000 29% 34-20 PEST CONTROL 4,000 4,000 0% 46-10 BUILDING REPAIRS 5,000 10,000 5,000 100% 46-20 ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE 15,000 20,000 5,000 33% 46-20 FIRE ALARM & SPRINKLER MAINTENANCE! INSPECTIONS & MONITORING FIRE EXTINGUISHER MAINTENANCE TOTAL: FACILITIES BUDGET 41,500 56,500 15,000 36% 49-08 PROPERTY INSURANCE 14,080 15,422 1,342 10% TOTAL: RISK MANAGEMENT BUDGET 14,080 15,422 1,342 10% TOTAL MUSEUM: 254,246 282,222 1 27,976 11.00% TOTAL LIBRARY/MUSEUM OVERALL BUDGET $3,122,454 $3,385,504 263,050 8.42% BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT — MARCH 2025 1 Administrative Services/Public Relations The Library Director attended City Commission meetings and Administrative Team Meetings, and the Women's Club 100 year anniversary celebration Customer Service and Circulation Statistics BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 Current Month Same Month Previous Year Percentage Change Customer Visits Adult 8,494 8,630 -1.6% Customer Visits Youth 5,443 6,698 -18.7% Total Customer Visits 13,937 15,328 -9.1% Total Circulation* 12,819 13,628 -5.9% Adult Circulation 5,512 6,046 -8.8% Young Adult Circulation 592 450 31.6% Juvenile Circulation 3,902 4,398 -11.3% ILS System Circulation (Print Materials)** 10,049 10,923 -8.0% Checkouts on Kiosks 4,484 5,396 -16.9% EBook Circ (Overdrive, Cloudlibrary) 1,194 1,111 7.5% Audiobook Circ (Overdrive, Cloudly 835 653 27.9% Overdrive Magazines 707 598 18.2% Audiovisual (DVDs, CDs, Audiobooks etc) 881 945 -6.8% Users registered 251 314 -20.1% Online user registration 2 40 -95.0% necard Cards 4 0 NaN BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 2 Number of Reference Transactions 641 792 -19.1% I *includes ILS, Ebooks, Freegal, OD mags, Gale .legal forms **Total items checked out kiosks and others in-house ***pulled from Google Analytics, number of views library website has received BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 Current Month Same Month Previous Year Percentage Change Kanopy Streams 483 8 5937.5% Learning Express Sessions 3 1 200.0% Gale Legal 34 19 78.9% Gale Infotrac Sessions 1 42 -97.6% Gale Infotrac Retrievals 1 29 -96.6% Transparent Languages Users 9 8 12.5% Transparent Languages Sessions 67 12 458.3% Learning Express Job Career Sessions 3 1 200.0% to Z total records viewed 436,535 8,137 5264.8% Boynton-Beach.org/city-library pageviews *** 5,486 4,350 20.7% Palm Beach Post Views (Newsbank) 1,021 570 79.1% ***pulled from Google Analytics, number of views library website has received BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT — MARCH 2025 3 Collection Management Discarded Items 881 Items Added to Collection 886 Customer Relations/Curbside Pickup Curbside Appointments made 3 Curbside appointments picked up 3 Curbside appointments no-show p BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT — MARCH 2025 4 Social Media Page engagements 264 engagements Q Page new likes Page engagement... Page new followers Audience > Age 35-44 25-34 EM 45-54 11.19% 9 55-64 engagement rate new followers 65+ 18-24 M 13-17 m (j Page reach Pageviews Q Followers 3 23960 438 373 likes users views followers (� Top posts > Likes and reactions Q Post engagements >E 46 rir engagements Mr. James is ready to help you find your next Captain Burdelski is on patrol for literary! ,�, The Teen Zone was packed this week! Don't read. A T his Read Across America Week, celebrate messthese upcomingprograms exclusively reading with a child, visit the library, and dive for teens:- March Madness NBA 2K -Tuesday, 16 likes and reactions 11 likes and reactions 5 likes and reactions BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 5 ® Followers ® Engaged audience... 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The vibrations melted away reading with a chid, visit the library, and dive 32 likes 18 likes Mikes ® Page reach 0 Page engagement ® Page engagement... 300 40 17.89% connections engagements engagement rate ® Page clicks ® Posts Followers 63 6 193 clicks posts followers Post impressions 928 impressions Q Tweets 50 tweets N BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 ® Top posts> Reactions We're proud to spread the joy of reading! Our The Job Skills Series will equip you with Lbrarys Marketing& Outreach Manager essential skills to become astrong and teamed up with our fellow colleagues for adaptable candidate for any job. The 16 reactions Top tweets > Engagement rate We're proud to spread the joy of reading! Our Library's Marketing & Outreach Manager teamed up with our fellow colleagues for 28.33% engagement rate 5 reactions '19 @BBCityLibrary Marg .19,35 Teen Career Workshop: Cybersecurity Monday, March 10 httpsl/bbflpl.libcal.com/event/13831151 #BoyntonBeach 19.05% engagement rate 7 r -1' aoynt�h Beirb city Library 751—N Captain Burdelski is on patrol for literacy! �U This Read Across America Week, celebrate reading with a child, visit the library, and dive 5 reactions 10@BBCityLibrary , Mar O2; 02:00 Culprits of the Nuremberg Trials with Dr. William Reszelbach Wednesday, March 12 h"ps.1/bbtlpllibcal.com/catendarlprograms/ 1946trial 16.67% engagement rate BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 Public Computer Usage Statistics Adult Computer Use: 1450 Adult Computer Average Time Per Session: 46 min Youth Computer Use: 769 Youth Computer Average Time Per Session: 35 min Adult Laptops Total Use: 65 Teen Laptops Total Use: 56 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 Archives Activities Archives' Monthly Report - March 2025 E • More donations and accruals this month! Rounded up the last bits and pieces of Miss Gillian's materials relating to her collection here —just to list a few of her donations: teaching certificates from the UK in dance, awards/trophies, A/V materials, and lots of manuscripts/correspondence. • Slogging through my backlog of materials to be added to collections, as well as creating new collections. Processing Mr. Chris Hamilton's materials from his dad William "Bill" Hamilton, and creating a new collection for the Boynton Beach PD, as we don't currently have one. Let me know if anyone has any stuff for that! Brewing up some ideas for outreach on this as well. • Inching closer to (FINALLY) switching up our display cases, mister Brian R. in the Creative Edge Studio has helped quite a bit printing out photos and other materials for this; currently going to swap out the two outer cases with the FD centennial and collaborating with miss T. Marshall on engaging our patrons with historic recipes from the archives. Lots of great recipes such as "bean loaf" and more mango recipes than you can count with two hands! • Continuing work with Mary Kate on the oral history project. Although she has limited time, she has been a boon for moving things forward. Still in the planning and outreach phase — current steps are training M.K. with our recording equipment and drafting up general questions/directions specific to each potential subject. • Nothing notable beyond the handful of reference requests both internally from the city, and externally from patrons & other potential users interested in archival materials. Typical requests consist of looking for X photos from Y years in the archives, however there are plenty more beyond that. One notable reference exchange was assisting a musician use our oral history recordings for their art project; cool (citations & references were added where appropriate)! • Presented my lecture for the Brown Bag early this month. It went as well as I could've hoped it to! Didn't have a panic attack, and patron feedback was amicable! Yay 0 Currently kicking around ideas for future presentations with a lot of the materials & research available at my disposal. • Coverage for the research desk as -needed for Sonia and Donna, always happy to do more! • As always, lots of "boring" things like preening the website, combing through physical materials, adding materials to collections, preserving & foldering documents for our collections, and more menial tasks. Please do ask if more elaboration is needed and I'm happy to expound BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 10 Creative Edge Studio Brian Reagh Programs: Hand -Crafted Greeting Cards (Saturday): 10 Hand -Crafted Greeting Cards (Evening): 10 Paper Quilling: 10 Adult Coloring Club: 4 Sewing Beginner Lesson: 6 Sewing Intermediate: 6 Appointments: With Librarian: 29 With Studio Assistant: 0 Creative Bug Active Users: 9 New Users: 2 Hours Watched: 4.39 The most popular class category this month is Sewing. This month, the Creative Edge Studio welcomed 8 new users, continuing to grow our community of creatives and innovators. We also celebrated a milestone with our first Oculus appointment, expanding the ways our patrons can engage with immersive technology. BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 11 In addition, the 3D scanner was successfully used to create a digital replica of a picture stand, showcasing the studio's capabilities for preservation and replication. Looking ahead, we've organized and finalized a Dungeons & Dragons program, which will officially launch in June. This new program is designed to foster storytelling, creativity, and community among participants of all experience levels. BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT — MARCH 2025 12 Public Technology Training Programs March Date: Time: # Reg # Walt Ust? stammers Uonriay, March 3o 5p 6:30p 1 3 N Tech Talk: Accessibility Tools Thursday, March 6th 10:30a -11:30a Intro to M5 Word {DAY 1) Monday, March 10th 5p - 6:30p ' Intermediate MS Word (DAY 2) Tuesday, March 11th Sp - 6:30p • Tech Talk: Cutting Through Spam Thursday, March 131h 10:30a - 11:301 e 5 N What is canva? Monday, March 17th Sp -6:30p ' Job Skills: Interviewing Skills Tuesday, Marti) 18Th Sp 6:30p 1 5 N Tech Talk: Textir�g 101 Thursday, March 10th 10:30a - 11:30a 5 4 N Getung Linked in with Unkedin Imanday, March 74th 15P 6:3op 0 0 N Tec h talk: What are Search Engines? Thursday, March 27th 10:30a - 11:30a Total Attended: 4 18 3 ?u IRi:s) 1 141 EPP— Tech Talk Thursdays: 10:30a—11:30a Join us every Thursday by the couches at the front of the library where we will discuss technology and how to use that tech. This class will be a brief 60 -minute chat along with instructions on how to use different technologies. Registration is required and limited to five seats. Others may drop-in but the five registrants will be given seats. This class will be held in the pop-up area of the library. MARCH AGENDA: March 6th —Accessibility Tools March 13th — Cutting Through Spam Calls & Texts March 20th—Texting 101 March 27th —What are search engines? Tech Talk remains my most consistent class. Despite the topics, a lot of the conversations go back to Al. I have a few regulars once more. When I attended the senior center, a lot of people from there started to come to my tech talks. BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 13 14 One -on -ones: This month, a lot of snow birds have been coming to the library and asking for assistance with digital organization of their files. I was able to show them how to upload their files to their cloud storage and how to recall those files. I also showed them how they can scan a lot of their papers straight from the camera on their phone. One patron came for help creating a contact list on Excel so she could plan a family reunion (she had over 150 relatives to add to this Excel spreadsheet). It turns out that she did not have Excel, but she did have gmail, so I showed her Google Sheets and how it is exactly like Excel. We were able to create a clear contact list and then she was shown how to share it with her other relatives so they could contribute to the spreadsheet on their own. Other Notes: March at the senior center went very well. I had six people and we went over how to use the camera app on their phones and how to edit images. We also talked about scammers and how to stay safe from predatory scams and phone calls. Getting linked in with Linkedln had zero attendees—which made me a little sad. I worked very hard on that presentation and I even updated my own profile to show them. I think I will try this class again later in the year. BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT — MARCH 2025 14 Adult Services Programs - Tiffany Marshall Program Sessions Participants Brown Bag: The Healing Benefits of Sound Baths 1 48 Brown Bag: Historic Women of Boynton Beach 1 18 Brown Bag Lecture: "Making the Right Choices for Care & Safety After a Fall" - Part 1 1 7 Brown Bag Lecture: "Making the Right Choices for Care & Safety After a Fall" - Part 1 1 5 Great Decisions 4 Every Tuesday until March 25 The Benefits of Meditation 1 12 Culprits of the Nuremberg Trials with Dr. William Reszelbach 1 14 Brown Bag and Great Decisions concluded in March. We had a successful season with over 80 NEW visitors to the library by way of our programs. Considerations moving forward for Brown Bag 2025 is to host lectures from January - February. This suggestion will be presented to the Friends of the Library. Outreach - Tiffany Marshall - Poinciana Elementary School (Wednesday, March 5, 2025) - Spirit Week, Wacky Wednesday - Forest Park Elementary School (Friday, March 7, 2025) - Read Across America Day/Dr. Suess' Day BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 15 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 16 Youth Services Programs Youth Library Statistics Summary -March 2025 YOUTH PROGRAMMING TEEN PROGRAtMM$NG #Participants #Participants Bilingual Storytime 1 Cancelled Teen Tuesday 1 Cancelled Bilingual Storytime 2 40 Teen Tuesday 2 10 Make & Take: Bug Buddies 11 Teen Tuesday 3 8 Picture Book Club 11 Teen Tuesday 4 7 LEGO Lab 4 Game Day 1 7 Bones to Books 1 6 Game Day 2 11 Bones to Books 2 11 Game Day 3 14 Make & Take: Clay Creations 23 Game Day 4 2 Career Workshop: Cybersecurity 6 Virtual Zone - Teens 7 Virtual Zone -Adults 4 Seed Library 15 Teen Volunteer Hours 36 TOTAL 106 TOTAL 127 PC Reservation PC Usage Report Total Uses Total Time Average Session 769 448:25:00 34.987 REFERENCE AND TECHNOLOGY QUESTIONS STATISTICS WEEKLY SAMPLE March 17-22 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Total: Reference 5 6 7 6 17 5 46 Techology 4 2 2 3 4 5 20 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT — MARCH 2025 17 AmeriCorps Children's Tutoring Monthly Report Tutoring/Homework Help for the month of January was devoted to the following: 1. Book handling/Concepts of print 2. Increasing sight word vocabulary 3. Reading strategies and behaviors 4. Phonic and phonemic awareness 5. Listening Comprehension 6. Reading Compression, fluency and automaticity 7. Writing (Not tested) Chart 1 Number of Students enrolled by Grade Level Grade K I 1 2 3 4 1 5 6 7 # Enrolled 2 1 6 8 7 2 17 1 2 1 As the chart above indicates, we are serving students at the Kindergarten to seventh grade level. We are providing tutoring and homework help and enrichment activities across the curriculum. BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT — MARCH 2025 Spring Break Due to Spring Break (Mar.25- Mar. 29) and because many parents communicated that they would be traveling with their children, testing was not administered. We opened up tutoring for the week of Spring Break and parents were encouraged to bring their children in. We plan to resume testing for the month of April, and will continue to assist students in any way we can. Practice Packets Tutoring/Homework help remained open during the Spring Break. Parents were encouraged to bring their children, and 30 min -1 hour sessions were made available. In addition to assisting students with their homework brought in from school, we have also started giving out practice/study guides. These instructional packets have activities that parents can do with their children and cover topics like, sight word recognition, letters/writing, phonics, and math. These activities are aimed at helping students enhance their skills in reading, communication, critical thinking, and creative writing. The writing portion of the practice packets include a simple to follow formula for creating main ideas, placement of supporting details, and paragraph writing. BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT — MARCH 2025 19 Other On Thursday March 27th, we held a Guest Reader event in our room from 3:30pm-4:30pm. In collaboration with Ms. Devynn, we had both her beginner level and intermediate level adult ESOL students volunteer to read to our K-5 group. The turnout of adult volunteers was spectacular and our K-5 students got the opportunity to have 10 different books read to them in languages like Spanish, Creole, Ukrainian and Arabic. We transformed our classroom into an enchanted readers space that featured things like a craft activities table, readers tent, readers puppet station, and pick your own reading buddy (stuffed animal) basket. As a big thank you for their tremendous support and incredible effort, Reading Achievement Certificates were awarded to every adult reader along with a book themed reusable tote. This activity really helped to highlight the importance of increased and continuous engagement with students when it comes to literacy, reading strategies, behaviors, comprehension, communication and fluency. By making this an interactive and inviting event, students were ecstatic to engage with our guest readers and participate in all activities presented to them. Guest readers were able to interact with students by having them sing/count along, asking questions, making real life connections between characters and modeling fluent and expressive reading skills. The exposure to the diverse readers and their reading abilities gave our K-5 students different perspectives on stories, while also giving them exposure to a wider range of voices and accents in which those stories were read -in. Student/Parent feedback was very positive, and both Ms. Aldith and I feel BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 20 that this event helped to reinforce reading and literacy as a positive, enjoyable and rewarding activity. Our goal is for our students to be confident and secure in their reading skills, and develop a lifelong love of reading. Event Activities *Create your own hungry caterpillar *Create your own butterfly *Create your own character puppet *Create your own storybook *Create your own superhero main character *Create your own superhero character cuffs *Book review worksheet We look forward to continuing our tutoring/homework help sessions throughout the end of the school year. Respectfully submitted, Pilar Regnier Aldith Scott BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 21 Titles of books and languages they were read in: English/Ukrainian (The Little Straw Buil) English/Spanish English/Spanish English �W English/Spanish My Numbers Mis Numeros 4 English/Arabic English/Creole English/Spanish LAOR( GA ALL') IL IALBIUENTA THE Eli) IFL \GM CATERPILLAR .dw English -� Dear t j;,0 ri, ;t p014 \IIIA! • ,UII tl�� l4'f.�.' English/Creole BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT — MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 22 r• Sm ��Vll BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 23 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 24 AmeriCorps Monthly ESOL Report for February 2025 Instructor: Devynn Fletcher Levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced (Tutoring) AmeriCorps Monthly ESOL Report for March 2025 Date: March 2025 Instructor: Devynn Fletcher Levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced (Tutoring) Overview of Lessons Completed: During the month of March, the students participated in lessons covering three main topics: Music, The Body, and Health. These lessons were designed to enhance both vocabulary acquisition and conversational skills, with an emphasis on real-life application. Below is a breakdown of the key topics covered in each lesson and the students' progress: 1. Music Objective: • To introduce and reinforce vocabulary related to music, such as instruments, genres, and musical activities. • To practice listening comprehension and speaking through discussions on musical preferences and experiences. Key Vocabulary Covered: Types of musical instruments (e.g., piano, guitar, drums, violin) Music genres (e.g., pop, rock, jazz, classical, hip-hop) BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 25 Skills Practiced: • Listening: Students listened to short music clips and identified different instruments and genres. • Speaking: Discussions included topics like favorite music and personal experiences with music. Student Progress: • Students demonstrated improved confidence when discussing music in English, especially in identifying different instruments and genres. • Participation in group discussions showed a positive engagement with the topic. 2. The Body Objective: • To teach students the names of body parts and functions (i.e. legs for walking). • To develop their ability to discuss health-related topics in everyday life. Key Vocabulary Covered: • Body parts (e.g., head, arms, legs, stomach) • Common physical conditions (e.g., headache, sore throat, fever, back pain) • Describing sensations (e.g., I have a stomach ache) Skills Practiced: Speaking: Students practiced describing physical symptoms and discussing how they feel. Student Progress: • Students were able to identify and describe body parts and health conditions with greater ease. • Many students made noticeable improvements in asking about and explaining health issues in a clear and concise manner. BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 3. Health Objective: • To help students learn vocabulary related to health and well-being, including common illnesses and medical tools and instruments. • To inform students about the proper steps in order to make an appointment, the step-by- step process of making the appointment and then attending, and the vocabulary and phrasing that goes along with it. Key Vocabulary Covered: Common illnesses (e.g., cold, flu, allergies) Phrases for seeking medical help (e.g., I need to make an appointment) Skills Practiced: Speaking: Role-playing activities included doctor -patient conversations. • Listening: Students listened to dialogues and answered comprehension questions related to medical visits. BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 27 Student Progress: • Students demonstrated a stronger ability to engage in health-related conversations and ask for medical assistance when needed. • There was an increase uY vocabulary retention, particularly in medical terns and phrases for common illnesses. General Obsen ations: Participation: Students have shown increased participation during group activities and discussions, especially on topics like music and health, where personal experiences could be shared. Challenges: Some students required additional support with medical vocabulary and health-related expressions. Extra practice through role-playing and listening exercises helped to address these challenges. Progress: Overall, students have made significant strides in speaking and comprehension, particularly in the areas of body parts and health. Their ability to describe physical sensations and engage in everyday conversations about well-being has notably improved. Next Steps: • Continue reinforcing vocabulary and expressions from the music, body, and health topics through review exercises and role-play activities. • Focus on listening comprehension by incorporating more varied audio materials (e.g., podcasts, interviews) to develop a wider range of listening skills. • Do more reading and writing exercises. Plans for April In April, we will focus on: 1. The home/furniture 2. Animals Conclusion: In March, three new students were added to my intermediate class: one from Venezuela, one from Morocco and one from Turkey. BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT— MARCH 2025 BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT - MARCH 2025 In addition to the lessons outlined above, a few of my students and I attended the first Friday event to dive deeper into our music lesson and get practice outside of the classroom (see attached photo). My students and I had conversation about the instruments they noticed and if they liked or disliked the music. We then had a St. Patrick's Day celebration in class, where everyone was encouraged to wear green and did. I taught them about the holiday, how it's celebrated here and in Ireland, and the origin of the holiday. Pilar had a marvelous idea to host a reading event, where my students read to her students. With great and meticulous planning, we lined up ten of my students to read to hers. We did our best to keep the stories short and engaged the students with other languages and cultures. Some of my students read popular and familiar children's books like "Goodnight Moon" and "The Three Little Pigs" in English and Spanish. The kids were also introduced to Arabic and a Ukrainian folktale (see attached photos). The children repeated words to learn them. The event was praised by all students. This also helped my students get comfortable speaking English in front of others and helped them with their pronunciation. We practiced and read together before the event a few times. My students received reading certificates, a ribbon and a book tote for eagerly participating. Current ESOL stats: Enrollment: Beginner: 7 students (1 from Ecuador, 1 from Cuba, 1 from Chile, 2 from Colombia, 1 from Haiti, 1 from Bolivia) Intermediate: 8 students (3 from Brazil, 1 from Haiti, 1 from Mexico, 1 from Venezuela, 1 from Morocco, 1 from Turkey) Tutoring: 1 student (Ukraine) Dev&1.0, Ftetcher ESOL Instructor A m eriCorm BOYNTON BEACH CITY LIBRARY MONTHLY REPORT- MARCH 2025